Comments on: abbr design and SEO http://www.leejordan.org.uk/v2/post/abbr-design-and-seo Web development since 1997 based in North Birmngham, UK Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:08:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Lee Jordan http://www.leejordan.org.uk/v2/post/abbr-design-and-seo#comment-2970 Thu, 15 May 2008 09:55:09 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/v2/post/abbr-design-and-seo#comment-2970 Agreed Andy, this issue isn't as serious as the other abbr issues, worth noting the findings though. I've updated the post to throw some focus on search engines as they may be misunderstanding abbr anyway regardless of mF's. Printing all the text in the abbr element? After all why shouldn't engines do that that's their job right? But it seems a fairly simple task to add some whitespace before the text which was in bewteen the abbr tags, and further why not add brackets to? Thanks for the comment, Lee Agreed Andy, this issue isn’t as serious as the other abbr issues, worth noting the findings though.

I’ve updated the post to throw some focus on search engines as they may be misunderstanding abbr anyway regardless of mF’s. Printing all the text in the abbr element? After all why shouldn’t engines do that that’s their job right? But it seems a fairly simple task to add some whitespace before the text which was in bewteen the abbr tags, and further why not add brackets to?

Thanks for the comment,
Lee

]]> by: Andy Mabbett http://www.leejordan.org.uk/v2/post/abbr-design-and-seo#comment-2954 Wed, 14 May 2008 11:12:29 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/v2/post/abbr-design-and-seo#comment-2954 While a screen-shot to illustrate the problem you mention would be helpful, there are far worse problems with the abbr pattern, which is very inaccessible in some forms; problems which have not been given due heed: http://pigsonthewing.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/haccessibility-unhappy-first-birthday/ While a screen-shot to illustrate the problem you mention would be helpful, there are far worse problems with the abbr pattern, which is very inaccessible in some forms; problems which have not been given due heed:

http://pigsonthewing.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/haccessibility-unhappy-first-birthday/

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